The New York Times Puzzle Solutions for Tuesday, September 24: ‘Strands’, Spangram, and More | Puzzles

Looking for Monday’s Strands hints, spangram and solutions? You can discover them right here.

ForbesToday’s NYT ‘Strands’ Hints, Spangram And Answers For Monday, September 23By Paul Tassi

New Strands puzzle at present and this can be a matter near my coronary heart so I'm actually excited to share it with you.

How To Play Strands

The New York Times’ Strands puzzle is a play on the traditional phrase search. It’s in beta for now, which suggests it’ll solely stick round if sufficient individuals play it daily.

There’s a brand new sport of Strands to play daily. The sport will current you with a six by eight grid of letters. The purpose is to discover a group of phrases which have one thing in widespread, and you’ll get a clue as to what that theme is. When you discover a theme phrase, it is going to stay highlighted in blue.

You’ll additionally have to discover a particular phrase known as a spangram. This tells you what the phrases have in widespread. The spangram hyperlinks two reverse sides of the board. While the theme phrases is not going to be a correct title, the spangram could be a correct title. When you discover the spangram, it is going to stay highlighted in yellow.

Be warned: You’ll must be in your toes.

“Some themes are fill-in-the-blank phrases. They may also be steps in a process, items that all belong to the same category, synonyms or homophones,” The New York Times notes. “Just as she varies the difficulty of Wordle puzzles within a week, [Wordle and Strands editor Tracy] Bennett plans to throw Strands solvers curveballs every once in a while.”

What Is Today’s Strands Hint?

We will begin with the official trace and transfer to 1 that I make alone for an additional enhance. The official trace is:

Spacing out

And mine is:

Literature style

What Are Today’s Strands Answers?

The spangram will likely be first and then I'll do the total checklist of solutions after that. The spangram is:

SCIENCEFICTION

And that's discovered on the board right here:

Certainly one of many longer spangrams we’ve had. The reply checklist is beneath:

• MARTIAN
• ALIEN
• ROBOT
• CYBORG
• MUTANT
• DROID

So, we've primarily three phrases for machines, DROID, ROBOT and CYBORG. When I noticed DROID I believed this will find yourself being particular to Star Wars, as that popularized the time period, but it surely was not.

Then we've two for aliens, ALIEN and MARTIAN. Meanwhile MUTANT will get us extra into X-Men territory, although it's hardly the one piece of fiction to make use of that time period. I like sci-fi however I did get caught on the backside with MUTANT and CYBORG being tousled.

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